TITLE: A Day for Memories
NAME: John VanSickle
COUNTRY: US of A
EMAIL: evilsnack@hotmail.com
WEBPAGE: http://enphilistor.50megs.com/irtc.htm
TOPIC: Water and Waves
COPYRIGHT: I SUBMIT TO THE STANDARD RAYTRACING COMPETITION COPYRIGHT.
MPGFILE: sb005.mpg
RENDERER USED:
POV-Ray 3.6 for Windows.
TOOLS USED:
Text editor, CMPEG, pencils, paper, and the LionSnake modeler
CREATION TIME:
I got started on this project as soon as the topic was
announced. Final rendering was complete on 15 July 2006.
VIEWING RECOMMENDATION: Full color, 24 frames per second.
HARDWARE USED:
Homebuilt Athlon XP 2400 (512Meg RAM)
ANIMATION DESCRIPTION:
The Master of the robots visits a lake near where he
grew up. This is set prior to my January 2004 entry, in which the Master has
one of his robots turn off his life support.
DESCRIPTION OF HOW THIS ANIMATION WAS CREATED:
The Master is the old model (same exported .INC file) that I used the last time
he appeared.
The landscape is a set of function-based height fields. Each HF takes a piece
of the function, and each is scaled and translated to represent a 50 meter
square section of the landscape. Those blocks which lie entirely outside of
the camera view are not parsed, so the memory savings are enormous.
If you have any other questions about things, e-mail me directly, or leave
comments on the comments page (and be sure to put your e-mail address in the
comments; sometimes the bot records the wrong address).